I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

When you hope for the best for sure something better will happen.

Courage leads starward fear toward death.

Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.